Will people use out of hours clinics? An assessment of non-attendance at evening clinics compared to morning clinics
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Understanding non-attendance in outpatient paediatric clinics.
Outpatient clinic appointments are often not kept. There has been little study of the reasons for this, but failure to attend may affect future health. Our study was based on the children's outpatient department of a large inner city district general hospital. The parents of 34 children who had failed to keep appointments and of 12 who did attend were interviewed in depth and the appointment sy...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Surgery
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1743-9191
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2016.08.286